The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-13
,.flO.x,LL'No ROTATION.

.. Experienoeu NA'
~ s.n,psted Parasitic Plants.
=. nlsn is to let the crops and
~ trllape kill the weeds.
t@ hat 1--WE most trouble are quack
1Ae S;.ch grass. ''pusly" and sorrel;
q N "thers as the gardner has to en-
Hcn -. ~ among hoed crops. are easily
so o.. down. Half my land is in grass.
Fer .he other half in garden crops. in
sa sh a. a way that every fall l plow up a
'a .a. If turf, and reseed piece Of the
ple 'd.n On the turf plowed in the fall
s;ss sweet corn the following spring
! l :" weeds to kill there; just keep the
NV hoed three times; fiat culture.
c css next spring we raise cabbage on
y. aSV ,orn land; the weeds do not get up
.a.t wear, in fact cabbage will
s .asr down, and sometimes kill
. ~ ouackgrass. We horse and
s ssn hoe the cabbage. butnot so much
=. n till weeds a. to make the cabbage
NOW s,ow The third year potatoes are
si,nted on the cabbage land; very few
rrs.ds come up. and these are kept
lawn by hand and horse cultivation
= the care Of the crop; any that come
~ are cut out before the potatoes are
d AZ or the weeds gone to seed. The
s sonrth year, the land having had three
dressings Of manure. ! manure heavy
and plant to parsnips. beets or any
hoed crops. except onions. This fourth
,..r the land is MANFRED. the manure
'.lowed under. narrowed, raked. the
.rsed drilled. and, If the weather looks
dv, rolled with garden roller; this
makes smooth surface for the scuffle
hoea The weeds come up this time
thick and fast. but three hand weddings
and hoeings leave the crop master Of the
ground by the first Of August. Some
weeds will come up among the rows
later; sometimes these are pulled, and
,ometimes they are not; in the latter
case they 60 to seed. Of course. The
18th year on half the land we plant
spinach with . heavy coat Of manure
again; and on the remainder, peas,
horseradish, pole beans and tomatoes,
without manure. The spinach is hoed
once, the crop cut of. the land plowed
and planted to a second crop; this
keeps the weeds well under on that
lot The half where the peas and other
crops are Is kept as clean as can be
till The crops cover the ground; and
then the weeds have a good time for
once. The pea ground is. however.
plowed later IN the season and planted
to turnipa cucumbers. late tomatoes
or beans.
This fifth year, in the tall, all tho
crops are off in time to pillow the
ground and so it to grass seed and in
tho rotation the land will give good
crops Of grass five years without ma
nure By this plan we do not much
care II the weeds do 70 to seed some
the fifth year; the grass kills them out.
This rotation kills the weeds effective.
y. By right management. Swede tur.
nips bush beans, squash or other crops
can take the place Of those first men-
toned for the second or third years
with good succesa The onion crop,
being raised continuously on the same
land, gives trouble in handwriting
lido this expeditiously with the llantl-
weeders and the machine hoes
till July; but in the rush
Of haying, picking peas and
BEAMS hoeing and late plant
ing in June, the onion patch will
sometimes get to be "a sight to be-
hold" I have begun on one side of
the lot in handwriting in July, on
the onions and parsnips. when it did
seem as though the weeds would get the
crop A difference of four days will
sometimes double a crop of weeds
Then it is ''war to the knife" and
With the knife we 60 through the rows
and cut out. below the ground. tho
roots Of pusly, ragwced and other
familiar weeds, lay them in small piles.
and finally gather them in baskets and
carry them out We cart them to the
barnyard and put them in the manure
heap for the next years corn or cab
bage. The manure for onions Is horse
manure, turned and made fine
previous to applying. The weeds
on the onion ground come
from those that finally 60 to seed
between this wedding and the gather.
Ing Of the crop. After the crop Is of
In the fall the land is hoed over, every
hing raked up and carried to the
manure heap. These weed-seeds are
10 trouble to those crops that are hoed
BY horse and hand; and the weeds help
o swell the manure heap. and keep up
he fertility Of the soil. Iput no dry
Weeds in the manure, but such as heat
ng will destroy the vitality of their
l. IL.